I just wanted to wish everyone good luck in their championship (or third, fifth, or even seventh place) match this week! It’s been a great year for the Fantasy Football Geek Blog and hopefully we’ve provided at least a little useful/amusing information to our readers. Anyways, here is my match-up in the championship of the keeper league Matt and I are in. After dispatching Matt in the semi-finals, my next opponent is my old college roommate, Rob. Take a vote and let me know who you think will win all the marbles!

Man you’re lucky you have good RBs because the rest of your team is severely lacking. Any particular reason why you’re playing Miami’s defense this week? I feel much safer with a defense like St. Louis. Good Luck!

Yeah, my running backs were definitely the strong point. However, I had the good version of Kyle Orton at quarterback most of the year and T.O. (who I just dropped) putting up solid numbers most of the way. My starting receivers were Boldin, T.O. and Wallace, who were decent for the most part.

As for my defense, looking at the numbers between Miami and St. Louis, they aren’t all that different over the past four games or so. Last time St. Louis played the 49ers, they only scored 5 points as a defensive unit anyways. If I lose, something tells me it won’t be because of my defense 🙂

Yeah what was up with that?! I was expecting a 150 yard, 2 score game or something. Oh well, can’t complain too much, especially since our league gives a little bonus for breaking 100 yards and he got that fourth catch to put him right over the line

Hillis (very early season FA pick-up) brought me to the dance, and Freemen (picked up last week) put up fantastic numbers!! Good thing too because Welker, McFadden, and Hillis were rather disappointing.

I was in the same situation as you with Freeman carrying my money league team in a week when many elites failed to post elite numbers. I clinched the championship during MNF when White caught that TD. $140 coming my way baby!

Sadly I got smoked as my triple threat at running back failed me in the most important game. Even Josh Freeman on my bench wouldn’t have saved me from getting dominated 159 to 91. Oh well, I guess there’s always next year. Plus, at least I got second place and a small prize for that.

This year we’re trying something a little different when it comes to player rankings. We’re letting our readers decide which players show up on the lists. This means less work for me (or at least spreads out the work) while ensuring that all requested players show up on the lists and all quandaries are resolved. Hopefully last weeks rankings helped at least a few teams out there win their match-ups and hopefully this week’s do the same!

Remember, if you have any Flex slot questions, continue to post those as comments and we can respond to them individually. Anyways, feel free to start posting your line-up questions, along with any questions/comments about this new format. This week I’ve kicked off the lists with the top five players from last week at each position. You can find the spreadsheet after the jump. (More …)

Hi,
I’m a FF player from Israel.
I’m going play my league championship game this week and im having hard time to decide who to start. Regular settings so i have to take 2 wr, 2rb and a flex.
Who would you take from those 8 that i have on my roster:
Mccoy, Blount, Bradshaw, Woodhead, Marshall, Colston, S Johnson and Maclin.
Please advise me Geeks.
Thanks.
Ori

Some solid options you have there. I’d go with LeSean McCoy, LeGarrette Blount, Marques Colston, Jeremy Maclin and Ahmad Bradshaw. Hard to tell you to bench Marshall after his last couple games and Stevie Johnson who has been solid all year, but who knows what kind of weather they’ll see up in Buffalo over the weekend. Good luck!

Added them on there. If Felix Jones plays this week, I think you have to start him over Woodhead against a soft Cardinals run defense. If he’s out though, it makes the decision easy. I have Manningham over Welker as well. Any way you roll, good luck man! Thanks for representing our readers all season.

They’re both pretty lousy against the run, but the Cardinals have let up the second most fantasy points to opposing running backs this year, while the Bills are the fifth most. The Bills just played some solid run defense against Peyton Hillis and Ronnie Brown/Ricky Williams as well, so maybe they’re stepping it up at this point in the year.

I have a QB decision to make for the Championship. Big Ben vs CAR, Grossman vs JAX, or Tebow vs HOU? the Steelers will probably have so much success running the ball, they won’t need to throw… I’m strongly considering Tebow.

Wow, this is an interesting one. Roethlisberger’s match-up, plus his numbers over the past couple games, make him a very unappealing play. Because Grossman has at least some experience, I have him ranked a spot ahead of Big Ben. However, I still have Tebow at the bottom of the list. He scares me too much and now that there’s some NFL video of him to go on, I’m wondering how the Texans will handle him. If you’re the gambling type, roll the dice…he’s the most fun play out of the group!

I am in my Yahoo league championship this week and my opponent and I are very close with projected points. How do you feel about Philly’s D this week? I currently have the Jets and Dallas, but I thought about dropping one for Philly this week. Also, I see Brandon is starting Aquan, but he’s been awful as far as fantasy points. I can’t afford another no show this week. Do I start him or Blair White?

I love the Philly defense this week and just put it at the top of my rankings for the teams listed. Joe Webb will undoubtedly fumble or throw an interception and if it’s a pick-six, you’re golden! As for your receiver question, Blair White makes a decent play, but I still like the upside of Boldin more. I know he hasn’t been great for two straight weeks, but I’m hoping for a week 10 or 13 type of game from him. The last time he played the Browns, Boldin went insane for 142 yards and three scores. Don’t expect a repeat, but hopefully he can do SOMETHING!

Thanks Brandon, I just picked them up and placed Boldin back at starting WR. I do have a flex spot that can be a second WR/TE (I already have Tamme starting), so should I place Blair White in that spot or keep Tony Gonzalez there?

I also have three QB’s, since I never really had a strong QB in the draft. I started with Cutler, but I also picked up Cassel and Kitna over the season. Cassel was great a few weeks, but Kitna has been my money lately. Should I stick with him? I’m hoping they don’t mainly run the ball this week.

Thanks for all the help this season!!! My RB’s have been awesome this year…. Peyton Hillis, A. Foster, and Ray Rice! They are ALL starting! 🙂

The Chiefs were good against the Broncos at home a couple weeks ago, but in the two home games prior to that receivers from Arizona and Buffalo did some damage to them. I just see Britt as the focus of the Titans passing game at this point and there’s a solid chance he finds the endzone with defenses still keying in on Chris Johnson in the backfield.

Wow, you got some tricky choices there. For the first one, I’d wait and see if Joseph Addai is going to play. If so, go with Knox, otherwise, roll with Donald Brown and hope for a repeat of last week. In the second scenario, same goes for Donald Brown. If Addai plays though, roll with Mike Williams. Good luck either way!

with AP out on monday, i watched my opponent who played joe webb chip away at my 14 point lead. won by .47 points and am in the championship game now. it was nuts. it’s going a tough matchup, this guy has arian foster, chris johnson, tom brady, jennings, mike wallace, philly Def, akers.

do you go with shayne graham or david buheler? play tebow, freeman instead of kitna? i have been rolling the dice on a WR3 all season long (have to play Stevie Johnson to the end right? open to any WR suggestions you may have…!) my live by AP die by AP mentality also nearly kept me out of the championship.
right now, yahoo projects opponent with 138 pts, me with 123.

I’d go David Buehler, Jon Kitna and keep Stevie Johnson in there. As for Adrian Peterson, it depends on your other options I guess. First of all you need to make sure he plays, but assuming he does, who would you consider playing instead of him?

my opponent got to rashad before i did. now his projected pts for this week is 148! meaningless i know, but still. I’d only have torain to play over AP.
for kickers usually, (ie shayne graham) if it’s snowing and whatnot, you don’t play them right?
i just have kitna, witten, DAL defense, and then buehler going today then. hate having points before my opponent does for some reason. banking a lot on dallas!

McMichael is more probably the more consistent start, while Hernandez is the boom-or-bust start. Just remember that Randy McMichael is NOT Antonio Gates and is not the same force that Gates was in the red zone. Go with Hernandez and I’ll cheer him on with you!

Actually, just checked the status of Hernandez and he’s listed as questionable and his injury doesn’t seem all that promising. He could give it a go, but who knows how effective he is. Go with McMichael who is definitely the safer play this week.

Any input on my line-up for the week would be appreciated! I am torn with my WRs (S. Moss especially). Moss has been good for me this season, has had a good couple weeks and has a good matchup against Jacksonville. I’ve been thinking about putting Moss in for Nicks based on the matchups.

Man you’re in a tough (but good) spot with those wide receivers. You need to be in a league with a flex spot! I like all of them (and even like Garcon too.) Subbing out Nicks for Moss might work out, as Moss has a great match-up. It’s hard to bench Nicks, but he’s got a game AT Green Bay, who have been solid against receivers this year. Wish I could be more definite, but good luck however you go!